Running Head: LITERATURE REVIEW/WEEK 8
History of Supply Chain Management and Tariffs
BUSI 740 – D02
LITERATURE REVIEW/WEEK 8
Abstract
The literature review will focus on the history and the ramification of tariffs on the global
market supply chains. Tariffs have severely affected many sectors of the economy. The
emergent themes will find and reflect on many of the limited sources found in the
literature, that echoed motivation and change about the possibility for future tariffs, with
an engaging conversation on the topic for free market continuums. This study will also
offer more in-depth data analysis, including motivating factors, to reduce tariffs in the
global community supply chains. Additionally, the interviews will better explain the
reason why federal officials and corporate representatives are persistent on this
conundrum, as its primary concern for continued expansive growth in the global
economy.
It is advocated that; qualitative research is the best way to employ this type of research
analysis. Qualitative analysis research provides reliability and validity in which will form
themes or categories in the qualitative research. The relevant research concepts,
particularly from a qualitative point of view, defines and reflect the multiple ways of
establishing truth in the qualitative research process (Rumens, 2012). Political and
economic forces have affected and dictated global decisions by imploring various trade
protectionism, that effects chain decisions as relates to tariffs and quotas (Simchi-Levi,
Kaminsky, &Simchi-Levi, 2008).
Keywords: supply chain, tariffs, history, populisms
LITERATURE REVIEW/WEEK 8
History of Supply Chain Management
Introduction
There is no written record on when Supply Chain Management (SCM) started; however,
we know that the evolution of trade started in the late 19th and early 20th century (Chopra,
Lovejoy & Yano, 2004). One of the first significant signs of global trade started with War World
II, with the big boom of supplies being shipped from the United States (U.S.) and Europe to fight
Nazi Germany. Over the past 15 years, SCM has grown to prominences (Mentzer, Myers, &
Stank, 2007), where some scholars believed that we are now in a 3rd industrial revolution
(Christopher, &Ryals, 2014). Some scholars believe SCM has become more of a Production
Chain Management (PCM) environment. More insight on this new phenomenon will be
addressed later in the literature review; the researcher will address the effects it may have on
manufacturing, distribution, marketing, customer management, and transportation (Mentzer &
Myers, Et.al. 2007).
The researcher will also provide insight on the integration and benefits of Enterprise
Resource Management (ERP) and Customers Resource Management (CRM) and how it
improves the daily lives of managers, workers, and human resource management. Furthermore,
the researcher will provide an analysis of the history of tariffs and how it affects the global
economy. Tariffs will be the primary focus of this literature review, but other individual parts of
SCM must also be addressed, to get the whole picture of the process in SCM, and the new PCM.
Moreover, some scholars believe that the first tariffs were introduced in 1789 and was signed
into law in hopes of promoting trade and raise revenue for the federal government (Halloran,
2019).
Document Outline
Halloran T. (2019, March 17) A brief history of tariffs in the United States and the dangers of their use today.Retrieved from https://news.law.fordham.edu/jcfl/2019/03/17/a-brief-history-of-tariffs-in-the-united-states-and-the-dangers-of-their-use-to...
Xin Z., Carter J., (2018, Dec. 2018). US and China reach 90-day trade tariff ceasefire after China agrees to buy ‘very substantial’ amount of American goods. Retrieved from https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2175987/trump-and-xi-agree-...